Economic Attacks

The Soft Cries Of The Black Swans

Mi'kail Eli'yah
29 min readJun 9, 2022

Objective: Conceive of ways to misuse the services. Understand crimes and/or exploits carried out in the digital economy in the real world that can affect us. From there, design countering and protection mechanisms (scaling them up into facilities) against financial crimes to detect, mitigate and/or contain or check them down.

There are 2 forms of economic attacks — criminal misuse of services and economic system exploits.

1. Predatory Short Sell
1.1. Luna/UST: Murder, Suicide Or Natural Death By Vulnerable Health?
2. Flash Crash
3. DeFi `Flash Loan` Attack
4. DeFi Loan Attack
5. Defi “Sandwiching”
6. Economic Hitmen Hijack
7. Rogue Trader
8. Ponzi Schemes
8.1. Derivatives Fraud
9. Pyramid Schemes
10. Money Laundering
11. Stealth Financing Of Illegal Activities
12. Conversation Vulnerabilities
13. Corruption And Embezzlement
14. Scams, Hoaxes, Frauds And Steals
14.1. WormTonguing

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